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Leonidas Witherall - Murder at Dandy's Dream · Leonidas Witherall

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We present the distinguished American actor Walterhampton in the Adventures of Leonidis Witherall. To
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be honest, witherrrawlls always getting nixed up in murders. You wouldn't think so.
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To look at him, he looks just like Shakespeare. It is there,
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and he's ahead of an important school for boys in New England. He
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also writes thriller stories on the side the Lieutenant Hazel time stories. And to
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escape from this intense activity, Leonidus has just gone to the mountains for a
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brief rest. Isn't that right, mister Hampton exactly? Mister Witherall's close friend
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and valuable housekeeper for the neighborhood, Missus Mullett, off to Dandy's dream domicile,
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a resort in the mountains where she's been combining work with pleasure on the
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basis of her recommendation. Leonnoris has gone there himself for a short vacation,
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but he hasn't been there more than a few minutes. When standing on the
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porch with Missus Mullett, the calm of the mountain side is shattered by a
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fire alarm. So the fire mister with it all? Why it's right off
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the road. Yes, you better go over, missus Mullett. You might
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be able to help. Oh how far is the fire stationed? You know
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what's about five miles away. They probably won't get here for a long time.
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Pretty bad fire. I wonder if anybody's in that cabin. See a
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kind of a flame. There is someone inside. It's a man. See
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him. He's just coming out. Looks weak too, and he's staggering here.
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That's all right. I've got hold of you. I think his other
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arms. Mullet got to go back inside. Why diamonds are there? Ammon's
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not worth risking your life for man. But now just lie down on the
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ground or I've got to get my diamond. It was a fortune fortunately,
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Yes, from the from the main house. Are my diamond in the top
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draw of the dresser. It'll burn, all right, it's so important.
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I'll hid look after missus Mullett. I'm going into that cabin. Wait he
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born? Is he crazy? He's heading right for the fire? Hard and
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spin him with all those frames? What's going on here? Somebody called him
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there? No, no one didn't there. He went to get something.
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It must be something. I wouldn't go on there for a million dollars.
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Maybe that's what it's worth to say nothing. You just keep those buckets in.
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What's happening? All? He's okay? All right? What? Why?
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All right? Yes? Overhe did, but I don't know why?
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Is fine? Did you get my diamond? Yes? I did? All
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to thank you. Here it is, mister Button. My names. Might
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we discussed this later, mister Button, in private? Because when I found
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your diamond, I made a startling discovery, reading mister Button, positively amazing,
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mister Button, I went into your burning cabin, opened the top draw
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the dresser, and found what you described as your diamond. If may ask,
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how much did you pay for this rare gem? Why you said it
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was worth fortune. I hope that was merely your excitement at the moment.
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I hope you didn't actually pay more than a few dollars. A few dollars.
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What happened? I paid thirty thousand dollars for that diamond? Oh,
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pardon me for whistling. See I'm the director of a school, mister Button.
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We teach chemistry, among other things. I recall our temptor telling a
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class once that real diamonds, being made of carbon, will burn when subjected
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to prior a. You're trying to tell me that it's a fake glass,
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mister Button, plain ordinary glass. That's impossible. I can appreciate how you
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feel. Thirty thousand dollars a piece of glass seems a little high, and
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are you positive? Wait? Now, you should be more cautious when you
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go shopping. I'll ruin him. I'll kill him. I am mister Dandy,
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the manager of this retreat and retreat. I wasn't supposed to tell anyone
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where I got this, but I will. I'll tell everybody under her son,
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and I'm going to take him by the neck. Man. I wouldn't
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recommend that perhaps mister Dandy made a mistake, eh not, the kind of
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a fellow makes mistakes. A sure, shall we become, mister Button,
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Perhaps if you talk it over. I want to talk to him. I
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just want to get my hands on. Would it help if I spoke to
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him? I mean, if it will prevent any buyer. You tell him,
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well, he realizes he's been caught selling a false diamond, you might
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prefurther return the money rather than discuss it with the police. I don't want
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anybody to talk to him. I just want to see him dead. But
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you can't actually kill the man. You've got to solve this some other way.
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I'm not interested in other but oh, get out, wall keep your
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mouth shut. Interesting suggestion, but surely you're not going to never mind what
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I'm going to tell We be calm, mister Button. Oh get out,
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all right, I will, But before I go, I may tell you
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I'm not going to leave this problem this way. What are you going to
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do? In your own words, mister Button, just you never mind what
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I'm going to do? Well, what can I do for you, mister
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Wetherell. I came to your room, mister Dandy, to warn you,
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warn me, yes about that false diamond you saw, the mister Button who
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said I ever sold him anything. And now there's no time for explanation unless
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he gets some sort of satisfaction. He's determined to kill you, to kill
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me. I knew that would interest you. That's why I'm here now.
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I thought perhaps I might as a mediator, whether all, I think you're
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a phony, the sulcus man Button. He has a little thing on me.
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And if you think I'm walking into a trap, you're crazy. I
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don't know anything about selling him diamonds. Play around with that all right,
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at least I've tried. Didn't you come here for a nice peaceful vacation.
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I did. Then mind your own crummy business, or you'll get a nice
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peaceful rest, a very long one. Rather a dull way to phrase your
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fat mister dandel, I was merely trying to pacify mister Button the day you
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said your little piece. That's because you look like Shakespeare. Doesn't mean you
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want a master mind. Everything strike to be very odd, mister Dandy,
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that someone should sell diamonds at a mountain resort rather than at a business office.
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Now can it possible you might be selling many types of diamonds, glass,
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one, stolen one. You don't care much about what happens to you?
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Do you home the country? Then cut your vacation short, whether or
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go home first thing in the morning. Keep your beard out of this.
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I certainly will not go home. This resort has been recommended to me.
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I came here for a vacation and I intend this day. You do absolutely
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all right. You asked the trouble, Now you'll get it. And missus
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Molly, what are you doing peeking through the keyhole of that room? He'll
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be interesting a conversation, Oh, that's badness, daughter, and you shouldn't
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listen to family quarrel. Oh, I dare, I'll say it again.
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I've run America, Danny. I don't believe the word you say about him.
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You don't think he's a group all right. I didn't want to tasure
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this, but I will. He just comes to good part of the See
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this diamond, moretta take you a good look at it. It's genuine.
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I had a twisted this afternoon. I paid thirty thousand dollars for it,
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got it from your boyfriend. And that diamond was stolen, he tells,
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stolen good. I don't believe it. He's what they call it fence.
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He uses this place as a headquarl. You wouldn't buy it. It's not
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no. We never had anything to do with a crook business like that.
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You're making up the whole story, he said. George Jills, you never
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got any man's good enough for me. You mane to get rid of every
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boy I ever liked. And you're desperate now because you know how much I
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love Jill. You say anything to stop from being married. And why don't
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you ask him about the diamond? He said, I wouldn't even bother to
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repeat your crazy story, and I'll bring him here myself. Oh had big
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a pardon? This door opens very abutly, doesn't it? Listening in my
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story? And who are you? I'm terribly sorry. My name is Leonor.
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This is with her all and this is missus Mullett. Oh I saw
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her before she cleans our room. Oh skeeves dropping? Huh? I suppose
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whether or not you heard everything we said? Well, your tone was not
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exactly confidential. But since you ask, I missed the early part very amusing.
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Now I'll tell you something you didn't hear. You know too much.
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Somebody else told me that tonight, called me a master mind. You won't
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get a chance to button anymore, though I will. You will find out.
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Monaretta, let's go downstairs. I'm never all sleep well? Oh thank
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you, I shall, I once said, Hurr, Loretta locked the door
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key, ob mind your tongue. Come along, missus mullet. This next
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door is the door to my room, isn't the Yes? Yes? Now
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where did I? Oh? I have a kid? Yes, here's the
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key. That's put the best bedding on for you. Anything else you want
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for her, though you might do a favor for him. I feel rather
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warm by all those fantastic doings. I'd like a cup of coffee. Well,
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I'll go down to the kitchen get one for yes, very kind of
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right there. I thank you who he said? Sleep well, come in
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peaceful the kitchen, very relaxing. Yes, oh it's you and mister button.
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Whether all, where's my letter opener? Give it to me? I
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don't know anything about a letter opener. You into my house at the fire,
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I think you helped yourself to a few of my things. That letter
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open is a very valuable piece as a hand called Persian base. It's made
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of the finest steal with a lot of money. Whether all i'll give it
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back, I assure you, mister Button, I haven't the modest idea where
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your letter opening is. I'll turn this room yours upside down to find it,
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and go ahead. I've never seen a room upside down, or just
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a moment, Miss Mullett, pleace, do I get the letter opener?
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Or do I call the police? Now? The gentleman I'm supposed to resemble
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was used to such melodramatic talk. But as for me, get uppity with
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me uppity and if you now for the last time, mister Button, I
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don't know where that knife is now. I wish you'd leave inter up now,
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please missus mullett, and for the last time, either you give it
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to me or I'll try looking for it myself. You can turn this room
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top seat turvy and you won't find that knife. Where it is? You
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know where it is? A well? Where is it downstairs in the kitchen,
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and go down and bring it up? I can Why not? It's
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stuck in something? Stuck in what mister Dandy? What? No, it's
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in mister Dandy's back. He's been murdered. A guess Why didn't you tell
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us about Dandy before? I tried to, But you kept telling me not
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to interrup if he's been stabbed with you on nice mister Button, asking me
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for it as though it were lost was a miserable attempt to to see me
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I didn't kill him. Perhaps not? Shall we go downstairs? I'm not
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afraid, Admirable, I'll come along, said. Let's you know she doesn't
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seem at all upset by this. You too could be in cohoots. You
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might have spoken to mister Dandy before this. Oh, I never get upset
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when I find a dead body. I found some many of them. What
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wait, whenever I'm with mister Whitwall, we always find one. He's always
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getting mixed up in murders. Oh he is? Is he? That's quite
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a character. Reference, Well, mister Witherdow is quite a character, thank
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you, missus Mallett. Now, mister butt, Mischa will go downstairs and
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see your letter opener. Lost objects turn up in the most curious places,
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don't they. Yes, sir, I was one arm, all right?
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Think him good bye? Is it gonna take him one hour to get here?
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Fortunately, yes, sir. The nearest police station is almost forty miles
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away. Besides, he says, there was an accident on the road and
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it will be blocked for some time. You mean we're all supposed to sit
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here, Dandy's body lying on the poor in the kitchen. Just sit here
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for an hour, or if you don't have to stay, mister Wick,
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I imagine, be all right to turn to your room. Is there anything
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we can do? No? Simple fact is that the dandy is dead,
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was murdered, killed by a knife. Roam through the window from quite a
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distance. Well, when the police arrive, they'll find out who the killer
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is, and that will be that. What are you doing that for with
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her? All? The playing bean bags? Oh? Just a fun You
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seem pretty cool with her all. I don't see any reason to be excited,
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mister button. Do you with a murder staring everybody in the face.
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Somebody in this room's a killer, and you're just standing there tossing as silly
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beat bags into that hat moment's of tension. I find it relaxes me to
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do something like playing bean bag. Do you just try to throw the bags
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into the heart at all? Yes, that's the whole objet of the game,
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no significance in it being my hat. I want to try it bean
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bag now very silly for a man who looks like Shakespeare. I suggest you
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try it too, mister Wick. You might all play a game you take
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our minds off this crime. Or is there someone who's too nervous to play?
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I'm not I have nothing to worry about. I don't pray I'll start
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eh here he goes, ah, perfect, didn't even touch the ring.
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One point for me, Oh, miss Wick? Watching Loretta? Oh,
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yes, sorry, I'm watching. You seem rather distracted, wouldn't you be
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if someone you loved had just been killed? Yes? Or if I discovered
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someone I loved was a crook and ablied to me? Are you implying that
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my daughter had something to do with Dandy's murder? Anyone could have, couldn't
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they? Mister Wick? Anyone here my second shot? Pardon man? Uh
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ah. Loretta never even dreamed of killing Dandy one point in one miss for
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me. Oh yes, sir, she never dreamed of it. But then
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the information that he was a criminal could have been extremely infuriating. Will you
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stop that? Why don't you just play bean bay? Whether all? I'm
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stopped playing detective. That's all I'm doing. Mister Button and mister Wick.
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Try a couple of shots. Oh, I'm not very good at this sort
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of thing. Come on, try it anyway. All right, here goes.
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I'm not awake, you're nervous. My hat's over there. I think
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he's just a bad shot. Try another one. Eh, I'm no good
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at it. Ohr off, I'm waiting for my turn. Well all right,
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way off, but the weak way off. He's hopeless. Let me
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drive, lady, who can wait? Okay? Ah? Ose I now
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the next one? Oh stop it, stop it? Something wrong this way.
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You've got to stop playing this game. You got do. I can't
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stand this for what's that into her? If we stop now, I'll never
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get my curse. Don't play anymore? Incredible? If bean bags should be
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so nerve wrecking, you respond to all sports with the equal sensitivity. Just
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too rotest playing a children's game with a murdered man in the house, very
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well, it's upsetting to you. We'll give it up. I suppose we
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go to our respective rooms and wait for the police. My dad, let's
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go. I'll be in my room. If you want me, you'll going
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upstairs where all a second, my daughter and I'll be in our rooms when
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the police comes. Strange man playing bean bags, We'll go upstairs to mister
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Mullett. Then I'm coming down alone. What I don't like this place anymore?
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Mystery with a doll. It's always kind of spooky here at night,
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But now with the dead man stand in the back, I think you should
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just lock yourself up in your room till the police come. Now, I've
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been threatened by everybody involved, Missus Mullett. I've no other choice. I've
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got to get at the bottom of this. Besides, it's ruining my vacation.
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What's that just one of our friends closing his door. Now I'm going
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to sneak downstairs and look at the records of this resort. Are they so
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important? The minute I see those records, I'll know who killed mister Dandy.
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Now I don't want to be seen. Uh no o other hall light
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switches? Yes to do, We'll turn out all the lights. There.
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That's it now see wait? What's that? Just the way sounds like someone
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wailing in agony and missus mother, you're talking like a character in my hazel
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Tine stories. Agony or not. I'm going down just with the wrecktars way
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at the bottom of the stairs. I know. Mm, so far,
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so good. Oh where are those files? Oh? H m, o's
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at all? Where are you? Are you down here? All right?
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Oh? Where's that light switch? Oh? Mister witherall wea gop we go?
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Wait rop. You shouldn't be sleeping on the floor. Uh my head?
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Oh oh m, yeah you were down here so long as I'm worried
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like he ast you. How did you ever fall asleep on the floor.
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I didn't. I struck over the head with this, I guess that being
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bad. Why it's loaded feeling by someone probably threw it at me. Am
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I a cus. Yes, quite a good deal of expert throwings being done
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tonight. Mmm. Now let me see those files. Uh hah, some
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pages have been torn off. M there's only one chance left that you see
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this list of guests nineteen forty three, nineteen forty two, nineteen forty I
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see, Oh, miss Mourada. I feel a bit dizzier. Would you
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take that telephone and make a call for me for sure? Who do you
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want to speak to? I want long distance? Mister Paul Scoot, Omaha,
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Nebraska, numbers green Field, nine eighty six. Who in the world's
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he? What he got to do with it? With his name and address
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and follo only here on the records he was a guest in nineteen forty operator
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long distance. Please, that's very important. I speak to mister Skook.
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But why do you excuse me? Long distance? I want Omaha, Nebraska,
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Greenfield nine eighty six. This is roadside seven two three six seven,
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Yes, all right, mister wall. Why do you want this? Mister
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schoon? He's going to tell me who the murderer is? Written here at
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all? A man in Nebraska? Do you see your way ones do with
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them? All a bit shaky? Yes, just what a saurce calling someone
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in Nebraska to ask them who did the killing? Denies? Oh? Hello,
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guess a minute? Hold on here, Oh, mister scoot, this
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is strange, I know, calling you long distance this hour. My name
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is Leonor this this wither all. I'm calling from Dandy's dream domicile. You
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were here once, weren't you? Yes, well, I wanted to ask
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you a questions now it's terribly important. Tell me did you ever play bean
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bag? Nah? You are disa no, no, this isn't the joke,
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mister Scoot. So who'd you play with? And who won? Who
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did you with her? All? I see? Yes, yes, so
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well, thank you. That's all I wanted to know. Thank you,
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thank you very much. Indeed, well, missus Mallett, I have the
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information I wanted. Now, don't you think you better lie down until the
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police come? No, now, I'm going swimming. Swimming. You must
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have been beamed all right from him? No, mister button, but it
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was warm upstairs, you know. WA's on his way down to his donor.
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I guess they're kind of restless. Anything new, well, I just
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thought of a new way or a leg another game. No, I'm going
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out on the lake for a moonlight swim. You're a fool. Only a
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network would go swimming now just the same. I'm going. I want to
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see if my swimming is any better or any worse. Never's good? Can't
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you swim well? I'm fortunately, mister wick. My swimming is atrocious.
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You know, I'm hopeless in the water. But I understand mister dandy as
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a supply of water wings. So I'll have a go at it. I
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don't think you should do it well. I won't go out very far.
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Dangerous to go swimming where you can't swim it is very dangerous. I'll stand
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here in the dark. That's it at all. You'll call him help if
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you have any trouble. Water wings on, yeah, all right by there
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goes. You don't know wat too far? Why I'm safe with these water
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wings? Boy, I could hardly see you, Oh water mall, you
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might take cold. Never think of that. I think you that such cool?
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Can you hear me? Water wings? I could see him my wife
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stakes the bar, but I can't see him now, so I can't see
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anything out there. Did you say he's dunning with water wings? I would
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see him, and then it was kind of a funny noise, I said,
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like a balloon rising, and I couldn't see the wings anymore. I
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couldn't even thinking any much as he can't. We there, pull her on.
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I can't swim well enough to rest you anyone. Head. That is
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the police. Oh, never mind the police. The roll down there,
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that's him. Did you never trt of the beach side? I think I
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talk to you here? Or here's the police. Maybe they can pull him
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off. All right? We heard where's it? Did you shut me out
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off the street ahead? The few times he's only been in a few seconds,
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Mom, will it fell a ground out there? Go get it right?
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Just get me caught off Albica. Glad to see you in, just
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in time to the road. Where did you come from? So you were
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drownding out there? We got to call. Someone's been murdered. Who was
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it? Where's it? His name's Dandy, officer. He's in the kitchen.
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I'll get a towel standing there that's hipping bathing. Do and don't put
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that knife in him? Out needs my hands to wring out this shoe.
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You get back up here in the dark without our sea shram underwater to the
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other side of the landing, then you can swim. Huh oh h officer,
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you will be interested in this knife. I'll take it. That's my
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letter, open up. But I thought it was sticking in mister Dandy's body,
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mister button it was. How'd you get? It? Was thrown at
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me while I was out in the lake by the same person who killed mister
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Dandy, who the idea was to puncture my water wing thinking I was unable
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to swim. The killer thought I'd drown, the knife would be lost in
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the water. My death would be called an accident water wings broke, they'd
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say, very neat trick. Who did throw that night? Oh, the
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champion would take a wonderfully controlled hand to throw a knife as beautifully as the
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one that did away with mister Dandy, and a loaded bean bag that knocked
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me unconscious before not too unconscious. Matter of fact, the shot that just
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punctured those wings was pretty marvelous, wasn't it marvelous? Come on, tell
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us, who wasn't now when we played bean bag to knife, bean bag?
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What they've got to do with it? But when we played, I
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was looking for someone who'd be very poor at the game. But you said
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you were looking for a chanceion precisely, but would the champ advertise his skill.
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No, he or she'd be anxious to conceal it. I noticed who
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was particularly bad, and then checked up. I thought the club records would
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list great athletic achievements for each season. What'd you find? Well? I
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was interrupted in my research and the pages I needed were torn out. But
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when I revived, I realized that I didn't need the master. All all
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I had to do is to call someone who'd been a guest in recent years.
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They'd know the name of our missing champion. So I telephoned a very
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obliging gentleman in the brask He told me who was the champion? You know
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very well what the name was, Miss Wick. She killed Andy with my
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letter open up in the blame on me. She didn't do it, mister
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Button the father, did you wish? You can't prove a thing, You
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haven't any evidence, your pardon? I just handed the evidence to the officer
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this letter overer, huh, yes, you'll find mister Wick's fingerprints on an
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officer, And after hit my wings, I dove down and retrieved it.
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Fingerprints don't come off in the water, you know, mister Wick very nice
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weather. All let's go away. My boys will take care of the corps,
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going to catch and follow. I'm surprised at you. You shouldn't have
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fallen from my trap. It was so obvious trap. Yes, sir,
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the swimming. You know, I'm a champ myself getting my car wack.
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You come to with her all you ride all the credit for I don't want
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any credit, officer, I just wanted a lot to finish my swim.
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I came here for a vacation, didn't I anybody want to see me do
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a swan dive. You have been listening to the distinguished American actor Walter Hampton
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in the Adventures of Leonidas Witherall.